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How to Implement a Background Worker Thread that Supports Cancellation (How to Stop A Background Thread)

30-05-2012 The background worker in .net provides a method CancelAsync() to cancel a background worker. However, calling this method will not stop a worker thread there has to be several things you have to implement before. 1. First of all, for a BackgroundWorker to respond to a CancelAsync, you must set the WorkerSupportsCancellation flag. 2.Continue reading “How to Implement a Background Worker Thread that Supports Cancellation (How to Stop A Background Thread)”